Choosing Sour Apples
Boskoop or Elstar keep enough freshness to balance potatoes and blood sausage. Very sweet apples quickly make the dish heavy.
German Recipe
Heaven and Earth with blood sausage
Floating potatoes and sour apples are cooked separately softly and then loosely joined. Crispy fried blood sausage slices and slowly browned onions form the hearty counterpole.
Total time
1 hr
Calories
700 kcal
Servings
4 servings
Difficulty
Easy
Why this recipe works
Rheinisches Potato-Apple-Stampf mit Flenz
The name describes the two main ingredients: apples grow on the tree, potatoes in the soil. In the Rhineland there is often flint, a smoked or unsmoked blood sausage. The potato steam should remain hearty, while the apples bring in a clearly fruity, slightly acidic layer.
Dinner
German Recipes
Meat
Potatoes
Recipe
Heaven and Earth with blood sausage
Heaven and earth combine potato puree from the earth with apple compote from the sky and serve fried blood sausage and roasted onions.
Ingredients
4 servings
Method
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1
Cook potatoes
Cook potatoes softly in salt water for 20 minutes. Drain, evaporate briefly and press hot through a potato press.
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2
Prepare apple compote
Peel, deseeded and dice apples. Heat softly covered with lemon juice, sugar and 50 ml of water for 12 to 15 minutes. For a little bit of structure, crush only coarsely.
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3
Stir potato stamp
Stir hot milk and 30 g butter under the potatoes. Season with salt and nutmeg. Apply the apple compote loosely so that potatoes and apple are partly recognisable.
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4
Slowly brown onions
Fry onion rings in 1 tbsp oil and 10 g butter over medium heat 12 to 15 minutes golden brown. Slightly salt and remove from the pan.
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5
Fry the blood sausage crispy
Gently turn the blood sausage slices into flour and knock off excess flour. Heat residual oil in the pan and fry the slices crispy for 2 to 3 minutes. Turn only once.
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6
Arrange together
Place potato-apple stamp on warm plates. Place blood sausage and onions on it, finish with black pepper and serve immediately.
Kitchen know-how
Tips for Heaven and Earth with blood sausage
Turn blood sausage only once
The slices become soft when heated. A thin layer of flour and once-in-a-lifetime careful turning hold them together better.
Variations
How to adapt this recipe
If you don't like blood sausage, serve coarse fried bratwurst to the potato apple stamp. The roast onions remain unchanged.
Replace blood sausage with 400 g well browned herbs or brown mushrooms and season the mushrooms with marjoram.
Nutrition per serving
700kcal
66.0 gCarbohydrates
22.0 gProtein
39.0 gFat
Values are estimates per serving and may vary depending on the ingredients, brands, portion size and preparation method used.
Frequently asked questions
FAQ about Heaven and Earth with blood sausage
The apples stand for the sky because they grow on the tree. The potatoes come from the earth. In the Rhineland, the dish is also called heaven and Ääd.
A solid cutable blood sausage like Flönz is better than a soft brush sausage. Thick slices and a thin flour layer prevent rapid decay.
This is a matter of taste. Loosely drawn fruit and potato remain recognisable; completely stamped a particularly homogeneous, creamy mass develops.
Apple compote and potatoes can be prepared separately. Slowly heat the stamp with some additional milk and fry the blood sausage and onions fresh.
A small endive salad or pickled cucumbers bring acidity and bite. Another filling side dish is not necessary besides potatoes and apples.
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